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Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN is said to
have recently received and declined an
offer of $4,000 from Chicago syndi-
cate for a series of thirty lectures.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

o. c. CABOT. brother of Sebastian
Cabot, spelled his name backward in
order to find an appellation for an In
dian smoke-weed-tob
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

A HoRsE-THIEF who was hanged in
Arizona last week met his death with n
stoical Indifference which surprised
everybody until it was ascertained that
he had seven wives.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

ACCORDING to an eminent English
authority goose lives fifty years. Pro-
vided, of course, he rcfrains from blow
ing out the gas when he retires.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

DO not follow all the health rules
that you see in the papers nowadays or
a second husband may be riding
around with your widow next summer
on the proceeds of your life-insurance
policy.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

But for the house-fy, says Professor
Pr ctor, epidemies would carry off IL
million OF people a year. This shows
discretion never before suspected to
exist in such disreputable object.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

QUEEN Victoria wore glasses in pub
lie for the first time last week. The
lenses We're no larger than quarter
dollar piece, and set in a plain bit of
tortoise shell.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13

BY forwarding their names in book
form to the President the people of
Kansas City wish to intimate that they
are bound to have him come.
Crystal River current. [volume] (Crystal, Colo.) 1886-18??, 1887-08-13
CURRENT COMMENT.

The age of political party can be
told by its rings.
The South western news., 1887-05-18
A. NJ. f. CHURCH.

SN1'v School at, Gam.
Wiring Services at, 1890 a m.
Renin: Services ut, 7:3O D NJ,
Ass meeting every Tuesday
hirht
Payer mcctin every Thursday
night.
Rev. K 4 DowSs, Pastor.
The South western news., 1887-05-18
Astonishing Success

1t is the duty Of every person
who has used BOsckees Germas
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the poor, dying consumptive, as
least to try one bottle, as 10000
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and not one ease where it faIled was
reported. Such a medicine ms the
German Syrup cannot be too wide~
ly known. Ask your druggist
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sold at 10 cents. Regular size rs
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Canada.
The South western news., 1887-05-18

For "worn-out," rundown" dcbiltateG
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lal reduction on goods in large quantities
g. -. ALLIE NJ.

to your memory. and I love yosi
now, ten thousand fold more than
| did when yc parted.
He tells NE you are still unmar<
ried and-Elsie, are yo;l free, and
will you take me to your heart
again? will love YOU now truly.
and my affection shall be shield
to protect you from all the cShkef.
ering cares of life. as far as ant
able. Do not say nay. hut
write me at New York, where l
hope to be IN one month. Below
m, 70 ho ev"r your most devoted
and repentant
Mask DUSToN.
This letter pr ten and sent, Re
FASTENED the preparation for his de-
parture, and the newt steamer from
HAVE numbered him among lie
p lssengers
With feverish aniexty he waited
what seemed to him the slow move.
ments of the ship. Never before
seemed waves so adverse or wealth
er so dubious, but despite all, they
finally landed IN New \ ork. With
all possible haste he sought tbs
post.officc and inquired for let
ter. 1t was there-had been waits
ing for him two DAYS. He would
not open it till he was in the soli-
tude of his rUom. and then he
read.
"MY FRIEND: Forgetting all
the sad past. will still call you
friend Five years ago to>day was
the saddest dreariest day that ever
dawned upon me in my whole lite.
1t seemed as it the aood-eate. Of
anguish were opened, and raining
down upon my head and heart
torrents of sorrow. Words fail to
paint the living torture of mind l
endured, and even now | cannot
recall it withouta pang rs Of heart
break. l forgave you long ago.
but my love is dead aud cannot he
resurrected. / will not pain you
by reciting how, day by day ! wait
C | for many weary months; thinks
ing and hoping you would send
some message to mitigate my sor.
row. But all in vain. As the
days heightened into weeks, and
still brought no word, | was forced
to believe that yon had indeed in
your cruel injustice lett me fOrevs
er, and must live on in perpetual
unhappiness, or else forget you.
Pride and injured self-respect werM
my helpers, and though lam sorry
to pain you | must tell you Gas /
said befre) that for that love
there is no resurrection. To-mor-
row | am to he married to a noble
man who loves me, and who will
never wrong the fidelity of my
heart b y jealous suspicious. My
heart bleeds for you, if l must give
yeu'even one pang such as l Once
endured. Adieu, and may our
Heavenly father help you to bear
what ever trials he may send.
Yours truly
Elsie DEANR
That was all but was
enough to chang the whole world
to Mark Dunton.
HELEN AUGUSTA
Fer the incest dried beef in the
The South western news., 1887-05-18

For the incest dried beef in the
market. call on j W EATON.
The South western news., 1887-05-18
KNIGHTS OF HONOR
MASONIC.

" | u Scdhley Lodge, No 229 F A
EI, " = y Kendrick, w M; H S
rr. s secretary; T r Hannah,
aipbt !. Meets Srd Saturday
'Sp' In each month.
ER SGH RA CHAPTER, NO 40.
Eii Kin leftover, H p. -
: ti.s " d Murray, Scribe; ] I
Sv,Sshh' Secretary. Meets 2nd
''Ay hight in each mouth.
The South western news., 1887-05-18

COUNTY OFFICERS. =.
Odlnary-H S Bell
.Ierk Superior Court-J C F Clark
Sheriff. G Marshall
lax Receiver ,CM Harris
I" Collector Fl Crouch
4 ii'ASurer-J D Laing
CC'fvev"r-J f Waller
,'fOner-John Daniel
.'un'y Farm Supt.-W H Cams
The South western news., 1887-05-18
CITY GOVERNMENT

Mayor VIM. Kaiglcr,
I"unciImeu We Kendrick, "
) loatham, G Deubler, J A
Horaey, T R Hannah.
Clerk L James.
Sc freaaurer-F w Clark.
Narshall-L A Hatcher.
leputy Marshall-JOhn B Roberts
Street Overseer-Nick Kenney.
council meets first Monday night
p each month.
The South western news., 1887-05-18
Mark Dunton's Fa-
tai Error.
From St. Louis Magazine. I

'"'iA '0t' LOUIS magazine.
i have been cruelty deceived in
you Elsie, and I loved you 50 fond
ly! T. can never trust woman
again; they are all false, / heard,
but would not believe, until nv
eyes gave. witness, that she to
whom | gave my whole heart was
not true to me; and as I have ever
told you, the woman who would
he my wife, must be mine alone.
she must resign all attentions from
others. My pride viii not brook
arrival.
al hen l saw you last evening in
such close and confidential CONVEX,
sation with one whose name rumo,
has coupled with yours.too deep.
ly Interested in him even to no,
tice my entrance, could no lon
ger blind myself to your base per-
fly, so | now bid you adieu for.
ever, hoping that you may find
greater happiness in the course
you are now pursuing, than you
could have found as my wife. You
need not seek to deceive me again
| close my eyes and ears hencetorth
to your voice. and shall put myself
beyond your influence. To-mor.
row l start on a long journey,
for an absence of years. l give
you the freedom which / suppose
you have been pining for. Fare.
we'll forever
MARX DuNToN.'
Elsie Deane read this letter to
the end twice, thrice: and even
then the full meaning Of the words
refused to enter her mind, or rath-
er her mind failed to comprehend
all they implied. At last the let
ter dropped from her perveless
hand. and look of deep despair
crspt into her blue eyes, and she
held out her hands, imploringly to
her companion, as if in human
sympathy and sisterly love she
might find succOr for her stricken
heart.
Oh Agsie, Aggie, what have I
done. that he can be SO cruel? The
cup, already filled too full of sor
row, is nov overlooking. Read it,
Aggie, and tell me what it means.
Oh, he does not know me he does
not know what those bitter words
are to me, to fail me at the first
breath of suspicion! Read it. and
her trembling hands grasped the
letter and gave it to her compan
ion; then with her face buried in
her hands, she listened in silence
to the reading again Of the words,
which conveyed to her the deepest
sorrow which had yet darkened he.
over.joyous life.
Can it be, Elsie, that he has
heard that disgracetul story about
Henry--or-no, it seems not that,
He must be laboring under some
mistake, and you ought to seek ar
explanation
Never exclaimed Elsie, with
flushed cheek and flashing eyes,
he already anticipates that, and
has put the seal of eternal silence
upon me He casts me off fol
mere rumOr, and never will l de-
mean myself to seek him, nor beg
that which he has already refused
l am never to be happy in loving
Oh, life is hard to bear!
AS the overburdened clouds fine
relief in rain, 30, her overburdeneC
heart found comfort in a plentiful
shower of tears.
DO not weep, Elsie. IF b,
loves you he cannot give you VI
without further explanation. anc
you will see him or hear from hin
again SOON
You do not know him, Aggie, re
piled Elsie; he is very proud, an,
as he says, will not brook any riv
airy. He has several times init
mated that he had heard some re
marks in 70 yard to Mr.. Corey an,
The South western news., 1887-05-18
GENERAL DIRECTORY.
CHURCHES.

Preaching at Baptist church LIST
md Srd Sabbath in each mcnth.
Morning Services at 10:45 A NJ
Evening Services at 6:45 P N
sabbath School at 8. A NJ
Prayer meeting every Wednes.
Day night.
Rev. B W DAVIS, Pastor.
Preaching at Methodist church
IN, End and 4th Sabbath in each
Month.
abbsth School at, 9. AN
Warning Services at. IL NJ
Evening Services at, 7PM
PRAYER Meeting every Thursday
night.
Rev. + A BRANCH, Pastor.
The South western news., 1887-05-18
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Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

to make a fire; when a very nice white pig
ran out of the bushes. We thought it was
too nice to let go, go Allen Barfell picked
up a small stone, threw and hit it behind
the ear; Pete Teagardner caught it and
held it's mouth shut, and I stuck it with my
bayonet. 1t never squealed. We skinned it
Skinned it in strips, as you would peal the
bark off a basswoodtree), andthrew the hide
and intestines into the river, cut up our pig,
put it in the pot with the corn, and cooked
out. These we threw into the river. But
we had neither salt nor pepper to season
with, so 1 went up to camp and asked the
cook Orchard Garner). who had the charge
of the mess chest, to let me have a little
salt and pepper. He told me to go away,
that there was none for me. I started to
see the Captain wv. H. Taylor) about it,
but looked back and saw Garner giving
salt to one of his chums. That made me
mad and I went back, but the chest was
locked. picked up an old ak and used it
for a key, got my salt and pepper, then lit
out for the river, for I was hungry. A bet
ter mess of corn I never ate before nor
since.
I cleaned up my plate after we got our
supper eaten, filed it with our corn hash,
ana gave it to old black Mart. the Colonel's
cook, for the Colonel's supper. You ought
to have seen Colonel Young go for that
plate. He asked no questions about it; he
knew it was mighty good. We were some
of the first troops in East Tennessee, and
our rations were quite slim.
WILLIAM HATFIELD.
Company D, 118th Regiment, o. vi.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06
General Howard

General Oliver Otis Howard was born at
Leeds, Maine, November 8, 1880. He was
-raduated at BowdoinC College in 1850, and
1854 at the Military Academy ct West
I. oint, where in 1857 he was made Assist
amt Professor of Mathematics. Upon the
breaking out of the civil war he was made
Colonel of q regiment Of volunteers, and
commanded a brigade at the first Bull Run.
He lost his right arm at the battle of Fair
Oaks, May 81, 1862. He was made Major
General Of Volunteers November %, 1852,
and had the command of a division at
Burnside's defeat at fredericksburg, De-
cember ID, 1862. Soon after he was placed
in command of the Eleventh Army Corps,
which was surprised by Stonewall jack
son and put to fight at Charlottesville,
May IL, 1868. In the following au-
tumn he was sent with his corps
to the West, and took part in the
campaign which followed down to the cap
ture of Atlanta, and commanded the right
wing of the army during Sherman's march
to the sea-" He was, in December, 1864,
promoted to Brigadier General, and in the
following March Brevet Major General in
the regular army. In May, 1865, he was
placed at the head of the Freedman's
Bureau, his duties lasting until 1872. From
1869 to 1873 he was President of the How
ard University. In 1872 he was sent as
special commissions to the Indians in New
Mexico and Arizona, and from 1873 to 1881
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

Once in the life of every MAJ
hears the seven whistlers' call. \
are strange birds on whom mortal
have never rested, the whistle OF "
wings sometimes falls upon the sta1
ears. And there is always a porte1
something momentous for good or
even though they may not "dree
weird" for weeks after the !
whistlers' call. Like oil portents'
coming is mostly in the cleaning,
then, after all. is the "witching nJ
There is in the quiet of o seen
country side in the twilight hush y
comes down from the mountain any
twilight shadows which fall froII
heavens, a mystical Significance u
other world, and of the fimsy stluI
OF the veil intervening, which Is
found at no other hour of the tN1
four: 1t is then, by some lonely J.,
pond, or in some valley circled "
woods that this hush is broker
faint, far beat, distinct note IN 1u1
not on earth or in the sky oVelp
taken up and repeated six tlm IT,
ever growing clearer and more Out
and finally pealing away with o la
wings and a sound of passing llh'
which in all the Mediterranean
slgnaled the death of "the Grea'
when Christ was born. -B0St0"
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06
Corn and Pig.

During the fall of 1868, our regiment,
One Hundred and Eighteenth Ohio, was in
camp across the river from Loudon, East
Tennessee, and we had strict orders not to
Kill any pigs. hogs or chickens, or to take
any sweet potatoes, etc.; but there was an
island in the Tennessee River that was COW
cred with corn which belonged to the john
MES, and we had the liberty to go over and
get all the corn VIZ wanted, but we had to
swim one branch of the river to got it.
Three or four of us would strip off all our
clothing, except our shirts, and swim over
and get what we could handle, pull off our
shirts and pin the bottoms together with
thorns, put in our corn, tie the slevees
around our necks, and swim back
Myself and three of my comrades (Rube
Timbers, Peter Teagardner and Allen Bar
felD had come lack from one Of these
trips, had got our corn cut of, had a large
camp kettle about half full, and were look
iuR around the river bank for some wood
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

College, Pennsylvania, in 1926, studied
but returned to his native State and was
elected to Congress in 1888; was twice re-
elected. He fought a duel with his COM
petitor, and while in Congress acted as
second to Graves in the famous Graves
Cilley duel. He was appointed Minister
to Brazil in 1874; was elected Governor of
Virginia in 1855. At the outbreak Of the
war he was appointed Brigadier General
in the Confederate army, and commanded
in the Kanawha Valley, whence he was
driven by the troops of General Cox, being
defeated at Gauley Bridge. Subsequently
he commanded at Roanoke Island, where
his forces were defe by Burnside, his
son, O. j. Wise, being among the killed.
General Wise died about ten years after
the close of the war.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06

q chance TO crow over me. After the affair
was over, I found that to be the almost
unanimous thought Of the regiment while
under fire; so their chatting had q good eff
feet, after all.
Had it been two years later, after the
Confederate artillerists had become moro
expert, they would have made it a very I'M
pleasant journey for US; but at that early
period of the war their practice was wild,
so that after q little while we disdained to
oven duck our heads when we heard the
. ream of a shell. and some Of the boys
even scampered out into the orchards that
lined the road after apples and peaches.
The nearest point to the battery upon the
road had been passed by the entire COM
mand except our own, the rear company Of
the last regiment, when they succeeded in
placing q shell in about the middle of us.
It passed through the body of the first man
above the hips, and exploded as it struck
the second, throwing all around promiscu-
ously, and wounding several. After that
my pride allowed lodging, though that was
the only shell they placed in the whole
column.
About that time Captain Grmn's artil-
lery got into position and soon showed the
the artillery practice of the two armies at
that time in the war. Our artillerists OBJ
tanned the range and drove the Confederate
battery from their position almost in the
time it takes to tell it.
From that time forth we felt like veter-
ans, as We had been under fire, and had not
run, though I am willing to admit, for one,
that my legs were willing, if my mind re-
fused. The Second boys took us into full
communion, and we turned in with them in
telling the boys who came out later about
the "battle Of Townsville" ". H.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-05-06
Our Baptism of Fire.

Our regiment, the Third Vermont Infan-
try, reached Washington a few days after
Bull Run, just in time for us to meet train
loads of returning three-months men,
among them Corcoran's Sixty-ninth New
York, the members of which took delight
in calling attention to their wounded COM
rades, and informing us that it was no boys
play to be. soldiers. On that account we
took a serious view of the affair we had I'M
dertakea, and were willing to concede the
Southerners would fight. To make it more
binding, after we had made our camp at
Chain Bridge, the Second Regiment, from
our own State, which also took part in the
disastrous affair Of the 21st OF July, 1861,
was brigaded with us. Of course they
treated us like new recruits, and filled US up
with oil the blood-curdling tales they could
think of. Soldiers will do that, and we
took our turn at it with later levies.
After q few weeks of drill and guard duty
at Chain Bridge, an advance was made to
the SACRED soil" across the Potomac, and
ak and spade soon transformed the wooded
heights into an array of im%pregnable forti-
ications, bristling with cannon. There we
encamped for the winter, varying the mo-
notony of camp life by picket duty and an
occasional reconnaissance.
It is Of one of these excursions I wish to
write. On the 18th OF September, at the
time apples and peaches were just right to
eat, a foraging and accommodating body of
four regiments of infantry, accompanied
by two squadrons of cavalry and four guns,
all under command Of Colonel Stevens of
the Seventy-ninth New York, took the road
to Vienna, Va. It was q lovely autumn
day; the country we marched through had
not then been devastated by the troops of
both armies, as was the case later, and
everything seemed propitious for an enjoy
able picnic.
Everything worked we'll until afternoon,
when the wagons had been loaded with
forage and our haversacks were stuffed
with good things. Then an unbidden guest
put in an appearance to take o hand in the
game. Jeb Stuart, afterward the famous
Confederate General, made play tt sur
round us with his command, but the
Federal scouts discovered his approach,
and in good order we were called in and
took up the line of march for camp, our
wagon train in front.
Stuart, at that time a Colonel, was in
command Of an outlying post at Munson's
Hill, and had with him, besides his cavalry,
Rosser's Battery and an infantry support.
Our road skirted the north side of q
swamp about two hundred rods in width,
on un elevation at the south Of which Stu
art had posted a battery, from whence he
commenced Smelling the column. That
was the first hostile shell that I had ever
heard, and it is unnecessary to tell old SOL
diers about the uncomfortable sensation
it caused to my inner consciousness. I
told myself that I wasn't afraid, and reiter-
ated it, and determined, for my part, that
che Second Regiment boys should not have